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Ojai California - Southern Los Padres : The Ojai Valley and Southern Los Padres National Forest (and other Ventura County). My backcountry and photographic interests started here.

Ojai California - Southern Los Padres

Mineral King : Mineral King - Sequoia National Park - Southern Sierra Nevada - California

Rocky Mountain National Park : Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park

Adirondack Mountains : Adirondack Mountains - New York

Adirondack Mountains

Northeast Ohio : Northeast Ohio - I live here

Hiking the Southern Los Padres (Old Old Old) : These are old hiking/backpacking photos from the Southern Los Padres National Forest. I usually carried a camera (Rollei 35T or Nikon FM) in the 1980s. I did not (for the most part) take pictures in the late 1960s or 1970s. In general, the rougher the routes and the more difficult the route finding, the fewer shots I took (a huge mistake, in retrospect). These are scans of Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides and a few Kodacolor prints. I estimate that I have less than 20% of the photos I might have had if I had not lent slides and neglected to retrieve them and if I had been more diligent archiving my photographs. If I find more interesting material I will post it. I find I am more bothered by the loss of some of this record (Lower Sespe, Big Narrows, Madulce Cabin [Madulce has been found], for instance) than the loss of my vinyl LP collection (Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Creedence, to name a few). Ultimately, I am simply a homesick Los Padres expatriate; in fact, there is an amazing generation of adventure and trail scholarship in process in the Southern Los Padres. I refer the reader to these sites: craigrcarey.net, Ventura County Canyoneering, Jack Elliot's Santa Barbara Adventure and the David Stillman blog. Also peruse the outstanding continuing work to establish the Condor Trail through the Los Padres.

Hiking the Southern Los Padres (Old Old Old)

Electron Microscopy : Electron microscopic images of pathogenic spirochetes; the purposeful lack of explanatory detail beyond the generic makes it art.

Electron Microscopy

Madulce Station Retrospective : Sometimes it is good to pause for historical perspective and consider what existed in the past and what has been lost. From the late 1970s through 1988 I traveled through Madulce Station many times. It was a unique location in the Los Padres as I think these pictures will amply demonstrate. The photographs in this set were taken in 1983. I was convinced they still existed and on a recent trip to Ojai, California I found a box that had not been opened since sometime before 1990 and, well, not only were the old prints inside, but also a complete set of negatives. These shots are scans from the original negatives. The pictures are arranged in the order they were shot, except for the first picture, which was taken in the morning after spending the night in the cabin and was the last shot on the roll of film. When I heard the cabin was destroyed in an arson fire in 1999 the feeling of loss is difficult to describe without a descent into unseemly pathos, so I will just leave it at that. The destruction wrought by the Zaca fire in 2007 was similarly difficult for me to process. To finish on a positive note, the current advocacy for Los Padres hikers through efforts that demonstrate a perfect synthesis of adventure and scholarship is unprecedented in my memory. I say more about that here, where I have also posted a number of old Los Padres hiking pictures. Finally, I have recently returned to hiking the Los Padres after a nearly 25 year absence and am writing a blog where I discuss then and now with words and photographs: The Los Padres Expatriate Hiker.

Madulce Station Retrospective

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